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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Well, the Honorverse series has its ups and downs and different people reach their tolerance limits at different points. (I'm willingly sticking with it because I *like* large-scale space opera.)
The series has two clean breakpoints, so far; SHORT VICTORIOUS WAR marks the end of the "young Honor" arc and "ASHES OF VICTORY" the end of the relatively narrow focus books, with relatively final endings.
If you go with WAR OF HONOR and beyond you are committing to a very complex story with at least three separate multivolume narratives and at least six sets of protagonists in at least three theaters of operation. Where earlier novels revolved around relatively small battles and skirmishes, the latter books are leading up to a long galaxy-wide epochal war. More plot-driven (pun intended) than character-driven.
Not the same kind of story at all yet it is a single series that does hold together as a single epic.
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My first try ended in the middle of War of Honor (book 10); I had read too much, too fast and completely burned myself out. I couldn't even finish the book. My next go round, I will not only read the series, proper, I plan to include the World of Honor Anthologies in chronological order, but at a much slower rate.